EMPIRE LABOUR CONFERENCE

Evening Star, Issue 25083, 26 January 1944, Page 4

EMPIRE LABOUR CONFERENCE

DOMINION REPRESENTATION PRELIMINARY TALKS IN NEW ZEALAND (Rec. 1 p.m.) CANBERRA. Jp unary 2fi. The Federal Executive of the Australian Labour Party has deciueu • to .......i two delegates to the Empire Labour Conference to be held in London, probably in August. The question of attending a conference with the New Zealand Laibour Party before the delegates left for London was discussed, and the executive decided that its delegates should travel to London by way of New Zealand, where they could confer with Laibour leaders on a common policy to be presented at the London conference.

The ' Sydney Morning Herald ' says editorially that. _ following List week's fruitful negotiations between the Australian and'New Zealand Governments, the decision of the Australian Laibour Party executive to send delegates to the Empire Laibour Conference is a further welcome sign of the decay of the party's old isolationism and its awakening to a sense of its responsibilities in world affairs. " The post-war problems affecting Laibour «wifl be many and varied." says the "paper. " aiid most of them will be of the kind that no country can hope to tackle successfully without taking into Recount its neighbours. Migration is an outstanding example. The Australian Labour Party delegates cannot, of course, claim to speak for tho nation, but they can convey to the other Empire laibour parties some useful' ideas on the role of this country in the Pacific, and they themselves will receive in turn a valuable insight into the problems facing other countries,"